36th Southern California Control Workshop
The objective of the Southern California Control Workshop is to provide a forum for graduate students and postdocs in the broad area of systems and control to present their work, interact and establish connections with fellow students, postdocs, and faculty.
The 36th Southern California Control Workshop is hosted at USC on May 31, 2019. It is sponsored by the Ming Hsieh Institute and organized by
Ashutosh Nayyar, Ketan Savla, and Mihailo Jovanovic.
Technical Program
Technical program in PDF format is available here.
| 8:30 - 8:55 | Breakfast |
| 8:55 - 9:00 | Opening remarks |
| Session I | Chair: Mihailo Jovanovic |
| 9:00 - 9:25 | Speaker: Dhruva Kartik, USC Zero-sum stochastic games with asymmetric information Advisor: Ashutosh Nayyar |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | Speaker: Tommaso Menara, UC Riverside Cluster synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators for the analysis and control of functional connectivity in the human brain Advisor: Fabio Pasqualetti |
| 9:50 - 10:15 | Speaker: Prasad Vilas Chanekar, UC San Diego Edge modification in networks using novel edge centrality measures Advisor: Jorge Cortes |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Refreshment Break |
| Session II | Chair: Ashutosh Nayyar |
| 10:45 - 11:10 | Speaker: Xiaobin Xiong, Caltech Optimal control on a simple pendulum model: A perspective towards continuous gait generation and stabilization for 3D underactuated bipedal walking Advisor: Aaron Ames |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Speaker: Zhouyu Lu, UC Riverside Planning and control for collision-enhanced robot navigation at small scales Advisor: Konstantinos Karydis |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Speaker: Ben Dunst, UC Los Angeles Analysis of X-ray pulsars for navigation and clock blending Advisor: Jason Speyer |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Speaker: Yangyao Ding, UC Los Angeles Microscopic modeling and optimal operation of thermal atomic layer deposition Advisor: Panagiotis Christofides |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch |
| Session III | Chair: Ketan Savla |
| 2:00 - 2:25 | Speaker: Karena X. Cai, Caltech Rules of the road: Towards assume-guarantee profiles for autonomous vehicles Advisors: Soon-Jo Chung and Richard Murray |
| 2:25 - 2:50 | Speaker: Yanwen Mao, UC Los Angeles When is the secure state-reconstruction problem hard? Advisor: Paulo Tabuada |
| 2:50 - 3:15 | Speaker: Raphael Chinchilla, UC Santa Barbara Optimization-based estimation of expected values with applications to optimal stochastic control Advisor: Joao Hespanha |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | Refreshment Break |
| Session IV | Chair: Nestor Perez-Arancibia |
| 3:45 - 4:10 | Speaker: Dimitris Boskos, UC San Diego Characterization of ambiguity sets built from progressively collected dynamic data Advisors: Sonia Martinez and Jorge Cortes |
| 4:10 - 4:35 | Speaker: Pratyush Kumar, UC Santa Barbara Approximate model predictive control using neural networks Advisor: James Rawlings |
| 4:35 - 5:00 | Speaker: Yu-Chen Sung, USC Stability of switched nonlinear feedback systems with bounded average time-variation Advisor: Michael Safonov |